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Although this paper acknowledges within its theoretical framework seminal ideas put forward by Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth, refashioning Freud’s descriptions of ways of experiencing and coping with trauma, it moves in a different direction. It explores the intertextual pattern used to create unexpected, ‘artificial’ responses to trauma. The most common labels used to refer to such texts as Foer’s 2005 novel are ‘9/11 Literature’ and ‘The Literature of Terror,’ with strong reliance on trauma theory. If in a t...